An important addition is that saying “we are animals” isn’t supposed to cut what we judge to be morally right or wrong.

If anything, “We are animals” must be used to know that other animals may probably have similar introspection as us and we are unaware, thinking o ourselves as special kind of creature when it is far from being true.

If, let’s say hypothetically, a cow do have not only feelings but also moral thought, thinking of a sacred "cow god/goddess) and having moral argument with fellow cows, then it just makes butchering them even more of a “crime” that it is already.

First and foremost: You are correct.

Now allow me to try to be funny: Well… Apartments are just pretty square-ish caves.

(Note that I said “try to be funny”)